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Hadassah Medical News (5 stories): Hadassah Medical Center Celebrates da Vinci® Surgical Robot's First Anniversary
News From Our Units (5 stories): Hadasssah Mexico's Breast Cancer Awareness Week Reaches Over 500 People and Raises $30,000 for Hadassah
Editors:
Lonye Rasch, Communications Chair; Patricia Levinson, Communications Co-Chair; Karen Lustig, Communications Team; Tamar Davis, Director of Operations; Rebecca Rafelson, Development & Marketing Associate
Team email: communications@hadassah.org
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From left: John Zelcer, Vice President, Hadassah Australia;
Osnat Moskowitz, Director of Development, Donors and
Events Department, Hadassah Medical Organization; 
Tamar Davis, Director of Operations, Hadassah International;
Ellen Frick-Delman, President, Hadassah Switzerland & Liasion
to Hadassah Europe; Gady Gronich, Director, Hadassah
Germany & Hadassah Europe; Ron Finkel, President,
Hadassah Australia.
"Putting hard hats on, seeing the 14-story Sarah Westman DavidsonTower rising before our very eyes, realizing the sheer size of this enormous undertaking was truly mind-boggling and inspirational," relates Tamar Davis, Hadassah International Director of Operations, upon her return from a February visit to the Hadassah Medical Center.


You, personally, can be part of two new Tower initiatives: Your contribution can be doubled through a generous challenge grant, and your unit can name a room within the Tower. Click here to learn more.




The Hadassah Medical Center, which joined the elite group of the world's leading medical centers that employ the advanced remote robotic technology of the da Vinci® Surgical System, has just celebrated the first anniversary of its introduction into Hadassah's operating rooms.


For the first time in Israel, men with the HIV virus can have healthy children, thanks to an innovative treatment offered at the Hadassah Medical Center's AIDS Center.


What could medical clowns do amidst the devastating suffering in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake?  "It's all about finding connections between people, being sensitive to them, and thus allowing them to open themselves emotionally," explains Medical Clown Dudi Barashi, member of the Hadassah Medical Center's global outreach team for the past six years.


"We were performing so much surgery--about 320 operations in 2 weeks--that sterilization was a real challenge. But I was determined to give patients the standard of care we had at home, at Hadassah," explains Reuven Gelfond, Hadassah Operating Room Nurse and member of the Israeli rescue team in Haiti.


Researchers at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus and the Hebrew University have discovered that our hands play a crucial part in perception of the space within their reach.



Ahmed Moustafa, PhD, in
Jerusalem
Neuroscientist Ahmed Moustafa, Ph.D., spent three months in Israel observing methodology of brain research for Parkinson's disease at the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine and training students in conducting research at the Arab Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. "It is sad," he says, "that so many people do not benefit from Israel's amazing, top-quality research because they are unaware of it and think of Israel as simply a political entity."



Left to right: Hadassah Mexico and Latin America Director
Ethel Fainstein with Mexico Committee Members Rebeca
Marcos and Miriam Shapiro; Claris Dabah, President of
Hadassah Mexico; Vicky Mamieh, Administrative Assistant;
Reisy Mizrahi, Susy Amkie, Susy Schatz, and Dr. Ilana Kadmon,
Hadassah Medical Center Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist,
and her husband, Wei.
Over 500 people learned about the Hadassah Medical Center's humanity and state-of- the-art medicine and research during Hadassah Mexico's February Breast Cancer Awareness Week.  With Hadassah's Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Dr. Ilana Kadmon as the featured speaker, $30,000 was raised to support the Hadassah Medical Center as well as local projects including mammograms for disadvantaged women and financial help to a local child in need of a bone marrow transplant.


Prince Alexander zu Schaumburg-Lippe, member of Hadassah Germany's Board of Governors, hosted a party at his Castle Bueckeburg in celebration of his birthday and asked his 200 guests from the German aristocracy, politics, and public life to make donations in lieu of personal gifts to one of two Israeli charities--Hadassah being one.


Hadassah Cuba hosted a community forum about the H1N1 epidemic in December, with Epidemiologist Lizette Perez as keynote speaker. 


During a chilly day in January, Hadassah Germany's Munich Committee gathered in the Pedestrian Zone to sell German "Thueringer" hot-dog specialties, raising 6,000 euros in 3 days for the Hadassah Medical Center!


Hadassah France took the opportunity to introduce the Hadassah mission to the people of Charenton, a suburb of Paris, by hosting a presentation at its Village Hall in February.



Young Hadassah United Kingdom continued its buzz of energy by hosting a second exciting fundraiser on the heels of its first cocktail party in support of the Hadassah Medical Organization.


Young Hadassah Holland kicked off 2010 with a mailing to its supporters, generating over 10,000 euros for the new Young Hadassah International fundraising project: renovation of the Pediatrics Department at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.



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